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Re:The State of Web Scraping 2022 by digitcatphd on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @12:51PM (#29910349)
Good take, IMO ethically speaking we should not penalize scrapers themselves but do so based on their use.

Scraping Facebook to make a clone of profiles shouldn’t be held to the same scrutiny of scraping Facebook to do an internal analysis of user demographics for research purposes.

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Re:The State of Web Scraping 2022 by ForHackernews on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:06PM (#29914027)
Why should either be discouraged?
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Re:The State of Web Scraping 2022 by zamadatix on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:38PM (#29914413)
Cloning profiles is what seems likely wrong to me but I'm not sure how that being done via scraping or not should matter.
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Re:The State of Web Scraping 2022 by antonf on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:12PM (#29916365)
With cloned profiles (or any data obtained and shared without your consent) it will be harder for you to exercise your right to be forgotten, for example.
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